Sign up for our region’s annual conference! This year’s is held March 2-4 in the beautiful city of Charleston, SC. For more information about the conference, including schedules, visit http://www.sweregiond.org/Conference. You can also contact our VP, Robyn, for more details.
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Overwhelmed by manually adding all of our sweet events into your own Google calendar? Don’t be! Duke SWE’s calendar is also a Google calendar, so you can download all those fabulous opportunities with the click of a few buttons. Thank goodness for technology!
As the semester gets started, plan on buying from and selling your textbooks to SWE members! Chances are, an upperclassman has a book you’ll need or an underclassman will want to buy your book from you. If that’s the case, fill out the googledoc sent out in Weekly Digest 1/19, then get in touch with whoever has the book you want to buy directly. Getting your books from another student is sure to be cheaper than buying them at the bookstore! Please email Robyn (RNS4@DUKE.EDU) if you have any questions, and be sure to check the page often as others update it.
Apply by: Wednesday, February 15
Apply now for a Society of Women Engineers Scholarship for the 2011-2012 academic year! Students who will be sophomores through graduate students can apply on-line at www.swe.org/scholarships by February 15, 2012. You complete one application and are considered for all scholarships for which you are eligible. The online application is entirely electronic – including submittal of reference recommendation letters and transcripts.
The SWE Scholarship Program provides financial assistance to women admitted to accredited baccalaureate or graduate programs, in preparation for careers in engineering, engineering technology and computer science. In 2011, SWE disbursed 188 new and renewed scholarships valued at $540,000. For more information about eligibility and requirements and a link to the application, go to our website at www.swe.org/scholarships.
Help represent SWE at the Student Activities Fair! Sign up for a half-hour shift between 3-5 on Friday, February 3rd using this Google doc. The fair will be in the Bryan Center. Use the googledoc sent in the Weekly Digest dated 1/19.
In case you missed this week’s digest, you can access it here. We have a ton of announcements and upcoming events for this new semester, so take a look, and we can’t wait to see you around campus!
If you are not currently on the SWE listserv, but would like to be, please contact Lucy Dawson.
We are looking for someone to fill the treasurer position for this semester. You must be a registered official member with SWE (easy to do online! See Membership for details). The duties of the treasurer are:
1. Be responsible for the collection, distribution, and safekeeping of section funds;
2. Prepare, maintain, and report as directed on the financial position of the section in relation to the approved budget;
3. Prepare and file taxes on behalf of the section if necessary;
4. Submit a financial report to the Society in accordance with established procedures;
5. Provide oversight and guidance to the committee chairs as assigned; and
6. Perform other duties normally associated with the office of treasurer or as may be assigned by the president, the executive council, or the governance documents.
Please email Rachel (raf16@duke.edu) your platform if you are interested in running by midnight on Sunday, January 22.
11/5 Technoquest
11/6 Branding GBM–Kerri Paterson will come to our GBM and give us advice on making yourself marketable in the job search.
11/13 Tea with SWE–Come join SWE at the Washington Duke Inn for lunch and tea.
Region D Conference will be March 2-4 in Charleston, SC. It’s a great opportunity to get involved with the bigger SWE family without having to travel far and to look for those last-minute internships. For more info about the conference, visit http://www.sweregiond.org/Conference.
Women@Duke – 10/17 at 6p
Science Under the Stars – 10/19 at 6p; community service event in French Family Science Center
Bookbagging GBM – 10/23; discuss class choices, professors, etc. with fellow SWE members
What Can I Engineer? – 10/26 at 5p in the Mary Lou Williams Center; each of the four engineering disciplines offered at Duke will represented
Halloween E-social – 10/28
